Storm-window fastener.



PATBNTED NOV. 19, 1907.

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G. B. LEE. STORM WINDOW PASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED 0UT.3,1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE B. LEE, OF PROVIDENCE, RI'IODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE n-s-n. COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND.

STORM-WINDOW FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 19, 1907.

Application filed 0ct0bc13.l906. Serial No. 337.186.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. LEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence, State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Storm- Window Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

In the construction of storm-windows provision sometimes is made for ventilation by furnishing a window of this class with a section or small sash which is capable of being opened at will to allow circulation of air. In some instances the movable section or sash is mounted to swing.

The general object of my invention is to provide means of novel and improved character for holding a movable window-section or sash either swung into a partially openedposition for purposes of ventilation, or securely locked in closed condition.

The invention consists in improved sashholding and securing devices, as presently described.

In the drawings,Figure 1 shows in elevation a storm-window or sash having my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a view in vertical section on line 2, 2, of Fig. 1.. Fig. 3 shows, enlarged, a portion of the window of Figs. 1 and 2, and illustrates more particularly the movable section and the means of holding and fastening the same, the said. section being shown in open position. Fig. 4 is a view in vertical section on line 4, 4, of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 shows in detail, still further enlarged, the lower portions of Figs. 3 and 4 with the movable section locked in its closed position. Fig. 6 shows in horizontal section the parts which are represented in Fig. 5. Figs. 7 and S are detail views on the same onlarged scale as Figs. 5 and 6, showing the studs or pins with which the elastic adjusting and fastening wire engages.

Having reference to the drawings-At 1 and 2 are the top and bottom rails, respectively, of a storm-window, and at 3, 4, are the opposite stiles thereof.

5 and 6, respectively, are vertical and horizontal sash-bars or mullions.

At 7 is the independently movable section or sash.

The movable section or sash 7 is located at the outer side of the storm-window, and the 7 upper edge thereof is connected by means of horizontal hinges 8 with the appropriate horizontal sash-bar or mullion 6 in manner 1 enabling the said section or sash to be swung outwardly and inwardly below the hinges, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2 and in full lines in Fig. 4.

The devices for holding the movable section or sash 7 in the required open position, or fastening it in closed position, comprise the studs or pins 9, 10, which are driven into the lower rail 2, and the elastic wire 11 which is connected with the lower rail of the movable section or sash 7. The wire 11 is bent to form a series of eyes or loops 111, 1.11, to fit over the studs or pins 9, 10, respectively, and with an eye 1.12 at one extremity thereof by 1110L11S of which it is engaged with a screw eye 12 which is set in the lower rail of the movable section or sash. By means of the eye 112 and screw-eye 12 the wire is connected in a loose or pivotal manner with the movable section or sash.

The eyes or loops 111, 111, etc., are formed at different points in the length of the wire 11, and are adapted respectively to be slipped over the pin or stud 9 so as by engagement with the latter to hold the movable section or sash in a partially opened condition as represented by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and full lines in Fig. 1. The number of eyes or loops and the distance apart at which they are formed may vary in practice as found dcsirable. Each of the ins or studs 9, 10, is bent as shown, forming upper and lower shoulders 91, 92, and 101, 102, on the respective pins or studs, as shown best in Figs. 7 and 8 WVhen an eye or loop of the wire is fitted over the pin or stud 9, and thereby engaged with the latter for the purpose of holding the section or sash 7 in partially opened position, the tendency of the said section or sash to close again holds one side of the said eye or loop pressed against the pin or stud 9 below the shoulder 91, the said shoulder serving to prevent the wire from accidentally becoming displaced upwardly so as to free the same from the pin or stud and permit the said section or sash to close. Pin or stud 10 is set in rail 2 at a distance transversely from screw-eye 12, in the closed position of the movable section or sash, which corresponds with the distance between said screw-eye and one of the eyes or loops 111. Pin or stud 9 is set in the said rail at a point intermediate the pin or stud 10 and the position occupied by the screw-eye when the movable section or sash isclosed.

For the purpose of securing the section or sash 7 in closed position the wire 11 is swung around the inner side of the pin or stud 9, below the shoulder 92, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the neXt adjacent eye or loop 111 being passed down around the pin or stud 10 into position below the shoulder 102. The shoulder 92 of pin or stud 9 is on the inner side of the latter. Shoulder 102 of pin or stud 10 is located at the outer side thereof. The said pins or studs 9, 10, are so set relatively that when the wire is carried around the pin or stud 9 and the eye or loop 111 aforesaid is caused to fit over the pin or stud 10, the wire itself ismore or less bent or sprung. Its elasticity thereby is called into play, and one side of the eye or loop is pressed firmly against the pin or stud 10 beneath the shoulder 102, while the stem of the wire is held pressed against the pin or stud 9 below the shoulder 92. Thereby the wire is held in firm engagement with the pins or studs so as to obviate any tendency to accidental rismg movement which would free it from one or both thereof It will be perceived that the elasticity of the wire is an important factor in retaining the wire in proper engagement with the pins or studs.

What is claimed as the invention is,

The combination with a window sash, and a casing therefor, of a bar or wire hung by one end to the said sash and comprising a single length provided with a series of eyes or loops, a pin or stud set in the said casing and which is encircled by one of the said eyes or loops to hold the sash open, and back of which the said bar or wire is laid when the sash is closed, and a second pin or stud, ad-

jacent the first, and which is encircled by an eye or loop of the bar or wire after the latter has been laid at the back of the first pin or stud, to thereby look the sash in the closed position.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE B. LEE.

Witnesses:

RICHARD E. LYMAN, CHRISTOPHER H. COLEMAN. 

